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[Deuce Bigolo]

I sees it but I don't believe it

NATIONALLY TELEVISED BINGO


You get your bingo card from the Sunday Paper

Cheap way of trying to save the dieing medium that is print media or what?

Now I'm off to buy the Sunday mail as I'm down to my last 3 pages of toilet paper

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Tried to access that link, but it was taking a worryingly long time.

Bingo saved newspapers 25 years ago in this country. Shouldn't surprise anyone if the tabloids try the same trick.

The public are rather gullible, as proved by the millions of morons who phone quizzes on TV channels. A look at how much profit GMTV, for example, made from its quizzes should be enough to put people off. But no.

[Deuce Bigolo]

You know what the blue rinse set are like once they find a bingo story online
Anyway heres the amusing article

National Bingo Night


Surely televised bingo is an elaborate joke being played on the Australian public, and not bona fide programming.


National Bingo Night must have made it to TV in one of two ways: either the Seven Network is so creatively bankrupt that televising an old folks' game is the best idea they can come up with; or they're so confident they've finally won the ratings race this year that they feel they can program any old rubbish, safe in the knowledge it won't knock them off the top spot. (Maybe it's a combination of the two.)

Hosted by Home & Away star Tim Campbell - who's perhaps trying to style himself as Seven's answer to Jules Lund - National Bingo Night invites contestants to play a "high-stakes" game of bingo, which is similar to a regular game of bingo except with more convoluted rules. Instead of marking numbers on a card, a chosen player must guess whether a number drawn at random will be higher or lower than the number in play; meanwhile, a studio audience tries to complete their bingo card before the player reaches a particular target.

Adding to the cheesiness is comedian Tanveer Ahmed, who plays the "Bingo Commissioner", and former Girlband member Renee Bargh, who acts as Campbell's beautiful co-host.

The idea of bingo actually being broadcast in primetime is simultaneously surreal, laughable and disturbing - it literally feels like a concept that was invented as a joke. But now that it's become a reality, no one is laughing.

National Bingo Night airs on the Seven Network on Sunday, October 21, at 6.30pm.

Sam Downing

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I will restrain expressing disappointment about not being able to watch this. Once Kill A'body TV (sorry, Endemol) hears about it, we can expect a version on Channel 4.

[Deuce Bigolo]

I think the yanks invented it as thats where we seem to get all our mediocre game shows from

Let us pray its a one off...expect when the paper sales come in and the tv audience ratings gauged we'll know for certain